Essentials of Social Studies

What is social studies?

• Study of evolution

• Various branches of the study of human societies

• Reading and writing different forms of literature

• Studying the ground and the minerals in it

What kind of source is it?

A baseball bat used by Jackie Robinson in the 20th century

• Primary

• Secondary

What kind of source is it?

A biography on Elvis

• Primary

• Secondary

What kind of source is it?

An autobiography from a soldier in the Civil War

• Primary

• Secondary

What kind of source is it?

A history textbook

• Primary

• Secondary

A sequence of events in time are called a

• chronology

• artifact

• question

• sourcing

______________ is the way of looking at something that may be shaped by things like a person's age, job, religion or political views.

• Primary source

• Secondary source

• Perspective

• Bias

A document or record of past events created by people who were present at that time is called ____________.

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

A ________________ is written after the time period by an expert or historian and can include books, magazines, and short articles.

• primary Source

• secondary Source

• bias

• artifact

What is a historian?

• Someone writes about and reads about history

• Someone who creates maps

• Someone who studies earth natural and man made features

• Someone who excavates sites and digs up artifacts to study